The best surf photos do three things: showcase the wave at its most beautiful moment, highlight the surfer riding it at his or her peak of action and style, and still provide enough of a surrounding view to place everything in context....

Over the course of 26 years and 200 issues, ESM has journeyed to nearly every corner of this surfing planet. We kicked things off in 1991 focusing on the East Coast’s many nooks and crannies, most of which didn’t gain mainstream...

If Jamaican surfing in 2016 seems like an essential part of our extended East Coast tapestry, you can credit that to one family: the Wilmots. Billy and Maggie Wilmot founded the Jamaican Surfing Association in 1999 to bring industry...

Three environmental features? One on the biggest water quality catastrophe in years? One on the controversial and many-sided challenges facing an iconic if divided East Coast town? One that attempts to cover several other geographically...

When we started building this year’s Who Da Guy list, we didn’t purposefully include only local heroes, the next wave of promising groms, and relatively unknown surfers with mind-blowing stories. But that tends to happen on the East...

Some say it comes from Napoleon Bonaparte’s early 19th century decree that “A good sketch is better than a long speech.” Or Russian author Ivan Turgenev’s 1861 declaration that “The drawing shows me at one glance what might be...

For most surfers, travel is the sole constant in their lives. But let’s be honest — to many of us, particularly those in their 30s and 40s, the importance of adventure takes a back seat to more pressing issues. Like starting a family....

I’m a collector at heart. OK, maybe hoarder is a better word — although I’ll put my organizational skills up against anyone’s. But there’s one thing I’ve never had the urge to collect: surfboards. I have four that I’ll never...